"Heh, if people think there isn't enough gore... you ain't seen nothing yet. This is Sanctuary. Demons and evil cults still really like torture and putting bodies on pikes."

That'll hopefully shut all the whiners up. That made me not come here as often. "zomgz, in diablo II there were corpses with blood in the catacombzz! Why not in diablo 3!?!?" Noone ever listened to the reason being that it's in alpha state and that we've only seen 1 dungeon. Did the arcane sanctuary have mutilated corpses that had signs of torture? Not as I recall.

Problem with overclocking on a PSU without abundant power is the integrity of the supplied voltages. No steady voltage, no stable overclocks.

As for the video card, I personally would look at 4850's and 4870's. I have a 4870 and it's rock solid and will handily take care of Diablo 3. If you're dead set on Nvidia chips, go with a 260, but then I would say you would need a mandatory PSU upgrade.

I honestly would hole off a month and build then. I just wouldn't be satisfied with that system,

9800gtx+ (gts 250) beats out the 4850 in most games that i'm planning on playing. 260 is ~$210 and and on a budget if you have read. Also if you had read, I'm building it in June not now, and there will be multiple new cards in the ~$100 area that should be sufficient. Also as I've said 3 times the graphics card choice is up in the air. Sorry for the rudeness but usually your are more constructive with your posts. I expected more from you, GG

By the time Diablo 3 comes out, will he be regretting getting a machine now?

By then I would have suffered a heart attack from getting angry at my extremely slow computer.

That's the way the hardware industry works; you buy new stuff, and in 3 months it becomes obsolete. No matter what there will always be better stuff in the near future. But you gotta get the best bang for your buck, and with amd's Phenom II's, they seem to get it just right. The video card is still up in the air ATM, though. Was actually thinking of overclocking it a tad, since it's the most effective and easiest boost to performance. But I could also save $60 by getting a 710 and a motherboard with a chipset that isn't as helpful to overclocking. Not sure.

Also, Newegg is running a weekend deal where they upped the price of the antec 300 by $5, but added free shipping. I didn't check before, but does anyone know the usual cost of shipping it? Would it be a good idea to take advantage of this deal and buy the case now?

"Heh, if people think there isn't enough gore... you ain't seen nothing yet. This is Sanctuary. Demons and evil cults still really like torture and putting bodies on pikes."

That'll hopefully shut all the whiners up. That made me not come here as often. "zomgz, in diablo II there were corpses with blood in the catacombzz! Why not in diablo 3!?!?" Noone ever listened to the reason being that it's in alpha state and that we've only seen 1 dungeon. Did the arcane sanctuary have mutilated corpses that had signs of torture? Not as I recall.

THAT, right there, is why the whole flame war about the art direction of Diablo 3 is useless. The art style doesn't make the game - look at hellgate: london - the gameplay, lore, and the content makes a good game a classic.

Regarding realism in Diablo, Diablo is a fictional game in a fictional world with fictional characters and fictional lore. It's a hack and slash action role playing game. If I wanted, I could go into the woods in my backyard with an axe with 6-12 damage and slaughter some kittens, or I could play Diablo, select the Witch Doctor, and throw some Skull-Molotovs at huge groups of zombies while my pets eat their corpses. It would be a lot more fun, and I wouldn't have to go to a psych ward after.

Yet it's still UNREALISTIC and if you were looking at each object (both characters and surroundings) separately and without the knowledge that it was Diablo, I'm pretty sure half of the guys here would actually dislike it and regard it as 'lame'.

Lego-block characters FTW.

Really I need to ask this
Why are you at DiabloFans.com? All you are doing is criticizing every person who says something positive about our game that we have been waiting for for 9 long years. If you don't like it, please keep your opinion to yourself and stop flaming others.

I don't see WHY anyone even came up with a question about DX10 anyways? Diablo has never been about state of the art graphics - or any blizzard game, for that matter. Whoever expects Crysis graphics with crap gameplay will thankfully be highly dissapointed.